Exam 10: Drugs for Emotional, Behavioural, and Mood Disorders

A patient is taking Saint John's Wort and an SSRI. The pharmacist would monitor the patient for which symptoms? (Select all that apply.) Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

Attention-deficit disorder is 4 to 8 times more likely to occur in boys.

An adult diagnosed with ADD may exhibit which symptoms? (Select all that apply)

MAO Inhibitors are drugs of choice for the treatment of simple depression.

Describe the differences in action of the antidepressants.

The pharmacist has been doing medication counselling for the patient receiving lithium. Which statement by the patient indicates that teaching has been effective?

A friend has just been diagnosed with mania. List 5 symptoms he may be exhibiting.

A patient has just begun therapy with lithium. The pharmacist notices the serum level of lithium for this patient is 1.3 m/Eq/L. What is the normal range of lithium?

Tricyclic antidepressants produce their therapeutic effects by irreversibly inhibiting monoamine oxidase and intensifying the effect of norephinephrine in the synapse.

The pharmacist instructs the patient receiving MAOIs to avoid which item?

A family history of depression raises the risk for a client to experience biological depression.

A patient has just been diagnosed with major depression. List 5 symptoms this patient may be exhibiting.

Patients taking lithium should be placed on a salt-free diet to increase the effectiveness of the drug.